Housing; Housing--Kentucky--Louisville; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; African Americans--Social conditions; Busing for school integration--Kentucky--Jefferson County; Citizens for Equitable Assignment to School...

Dr. Minnis describes his background as a scholar and a leader in social justice. He speaks at length about the merging and desegregation of the Louisville and Jefferson County school districts.

Ms. Howard was a supervisor and planner at the Louisville & Jefferson County Planning Commission. She describes her role there and relates some memories of her experiences. Ms. Howard gives her thoughts on the relationship between zoning and...

This quilt was designed by Margaret Vandeleur of the Belmont Unit and made by Doris P. Gregory of the Naperville Unit. / I am Margaret Kroupa Vandeleur, a soft sculpture and hand woven tapestry artist. While studying at the American Acdy. Of Art in...

Name of the person making the quilt: Liz Coblentz (Margaret Booth Coblentz) / Born: Cleveland, Ohio, 1940 / Attended Ohio University 1959-1964, majoring in Fine Arts. / Married John Coblentz in 1967; mother of Carrie, age 9 and Isaac, age 6. / We...

THE HONOR QUILT for Mary Stanley and Keota, Colorado was designed and made by Auriel Sandstead (Mrs. Willard), Sterling, Colorado, who is the oldest living granddaughter of Mary Stanley, the daughter of E. Fae Oram, and founder of the Mary Stanley...

Four boys stand in front of a sign reading "Creative Art for Rowan County Children / Sponsored by Morehead Kentucky Branch of the American Association of University Women and the P.T.A. Council." Two of the boys hold another sign reading "Rowan...

Map, on a scale of 1/3000,000, of Jackson Purchase region of northwestern Kentucky (bounded bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee River to the east). The region was ceded by the Chickasaw Indians...

Sandra Gilmour, a founding 'mother' brings many skills and talents to the Center. A counselor on the staff of a local counseling center, Sandra provides professional consultation and caring support for the WRC.

Miss Hildred L. Vaughan of Western Shore, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, on Route 2, was commissioned by 'Through the Flower/North, to make an Honour Quilt. / Miss Vaughan studied art under Mrs. Alice Hagen, Nova Scotia's leading artist and various...

Robert Armstrong Cochran was born in 1822, on French Creek, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He acquired his education in that part of Western Pennsylvania and at the...

John Flavel Fisk was born in Genesee County, New York, in 1815, the son of a physician who settled in Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1837. He was educated at the Freeman Carey Institute, Hamilton County, Ohio, and in 1840-41 began a teaching career at...

Jackson Jail in "bloody Breathitt County." A dark building (or dark photograph), behind a telephone pole and flanked by trees. Caption from Associated Press: "Jail from which mob took victim--the Breathitt County Jail at Jackson, Ky., from which...

Hardin County Courthouse, old Courthouse in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1932. The Hardin County Courthouse is a two-story brick building with a porch, a triangular roof that also has a small pediment, and a white clock tower above the roof. There is a...

Caroline Butler Atwood Memorial Center, a unit of the Frontier Nursing Service on Red Bird River in Clay County, Kentucky. Buildings, split rail fence, and circular road in a rural, wooded area. On back of image: "Caroline Butler Atwood Memorial...